A generous 4 here...production values and acting are ok and very good in several cases. But the most consideration in any movie or play, unless it's porn or martial arts, is the quality of the story and TMSON is muddled and jumps all over the place. This is supposed to be a prequel to the "Sopranos" about the life in DiMeo Crime family, late 60's-early 70's and the evolution of Tony Soprano. Actually this was accomplished quite successfully in several Sopranos utilizing flashback sequences, showing Tony's father, Johnny Boy Soprano, a stone cold mobster who Tony idolized. Johnny Boy has been pushed to the side in the prequel, as Dickie Moltisanti, father of Chris, becomes Tony's supposed mentor. Dickie also becomes the center of the story, along with David Chase going woke with a subplot that takes at least 1/3 of the movie dealing with empowerment of black organized crime in Newark on the Mafia's turf.
A few other notable discrepancies:
Silvio Dante, who in the series was a high school pal on Tony's and Jackie Aprile, is all of a sudden at least 10 years older and one of the DiMeo soldiers, about the same age as Paulie and Pussie Bompasario.
Speaking of the DiMeo's, we never meet one. Not exactly sure who the Capo is supposed to be.
No Hesh, who was Johnny and Junior's associate for their lucrative loan sharking business. They also left out Bobby Baccielieri Sr, Richie Aprile, Feech La Manna, Carmine Lupertazzi and Johhny Sacromoni, who according to the timeline would have been in their prime as career criminals.
They also left out someone who would have been an important character during this timeline, Fran Felstein- Johhny Boy's goomar, played notably in an episode by Polly Bergen. Tony was intially fascinated by Fran, who had also slept with JFK, but becomes repulsed when he learns his dog had been given to her and that his father has been spending the night with her when his mother had been hospitalized with a miscarriage.
Many other important omissions in a story that bounces all over the place. Once again, the best prequel to the Soprano story are the flashbacks in the series.
